WASHINGTON - When senior FBI officials announced plans in 2002 to participate with the CIA in terrorism-related interrogations abroad, some counterterrorism officials in the bureau balked, arguing vehemently against the idea. To interrogate terrorism suspects with the CIA, they warned, could diminish the FBI's ability to abide by the legal protections the United States grants defendants. The officials raised concerns that the CIA's techniques were too severe and perhaps unethical, current and former bureau officials say. FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III and other top officials did not heed the warnings. Starting with the capture of Abu Zubaida, a top lieutenant of Osama bin...

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WASHINGTON - When senior FBI officials announced plans in 2002 to participate with the CIA in terrorism-related interrogations abroad, some counterterrorism officials in the bureau balked, arguing vehemently against the idea.
To interrogate terrorism...